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JeovaNeto (October 15, 2008 at 6:49 am)
Rommeljnr, I'm sorry, but your comment has many mistakes.1-Mansell was not leading the championship when he had that injury in Suzuka. 2-Piquet had a 12 points lead that day, which means that, by not running in Suzuka, Mansell lost any chance of winning the title and it's irrelevant the fact that he also couldn't run the next GP.3-Piquet didn't run in San Marino because of his crash, which means that only 2 GPs left he had a 12 points lead having missed one GP.
SegaMegadriveMic (October 3, 2008 at 12:45 am)
Go, Mansell!
marcoscharles (September 29, 2008 at 5:54 pm)
Nigel who ????
Gauchoo1234 (August 29, 2008 at 5:23 pm)
well... the same way Prost got lucky in 1986, Lauda got lucky in 1984, Rosberg got lucky in 1982 and so on... Altough I don't like to rely on luckiness to crown someone a champion (yo man, all these pilots got all the credit for being champs, they won races and scored enough points to!), one can always use this excuse to 'credit' his rival the title :-)
timmyt258 (August 28, 2008 at 8:40 pm)
there were 2 aussie champions
timmyt258 (August 28, 2008 at 8:33 pm)
mansell won 31 grands prix to dc's 13, u know...
timmyt258 (August 28, 2008 at 7:06 pm)
piquet was a great driver but u know, there was a bit of luck in all 3 of his titles - carlos reutemann blew a 17 point lead in 1981, prost threw away a 14 point advantage in 1983, and mansell scored just 7 points beside his 6 wins in 1987
newniounew (August 17, 2008 at 4:58 am)
very good
Rommeljnr (August 17, 2008 at 12:24 am)
I understand your loyalty to your fellow country man , but the simple fact is Senna was a better driver than Piquet and i watched a interview with Senna before he died were he said Mansell was the toughest competitor that he ever raced against and the only other driver he had respect for.
Gauchoo1234 (August 15, 2008 at 10:35 pm)
I'm sorry for him, but you can't argue this way. There's NO bad luck in there. Otherwise, Piquet could have won in 1984 (when he had the fastest car by far, but unbeliaveble unreliable - poor luck?), in 1980 (just take one or other retirement and that's it), in 1990/1991 (if only Ford had delivered the long awaited V10 engine wich would lead the Bennettons to the title. All bad luck?Definetly not. All of these is part of racing. Mansell was a GREAT driver but just don't compare him to Piquet |
